The only way to understand another culture is to assume the frame of reference of that culture.

We kid ourselves if we think that the ratio of procedure to data in an active data-base system can be made arbitrarily small or even kept small.

The only way to have a friend is to be one.

那些说话算话的人有一点很天真：他们以为别人也和他们一样。

The first step in liquidating a people is to erase its memory. Destroy its books, its culture, its history. Then have somebody write new books, manufacture a new culture, invent a new history. Before long the nation will begin to forget what it is and what it was.